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portar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to bear, to carry
  2. (transitive) to wear (clothes)
  3. (reflexive) to behave, to be good

Frequency

22k
Hyphenated as
por‧tar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/poɾˈtaɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish portar, a foreign word borrowed in various times from Latin portāre (“bring, carry”) and from cognates in Romance languages such as Catalan portar, French porter, Italian portare; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“go, traverse”).

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